*Welsh industrialist Robert Owen married the daughter of Scottish industrialist David Dale and became manager and co-owner of Dale’s cotton mill in England’s Lancashire. Owen vowed “to make arrangements to supersede the evil conditions [of the millhands] ... by good conditions.”
Robert Owen (b. May 14, 1771 – d. 17 November 17, 1858) was a Welsh social reformer and one of the founders of utopian socialism and the cooperative movement.
Owen's philosophy was based on three intellectual pillars: First, no one was responsible for his will and his own actions because his whole character is formed independently of himself; people are products of their heredity and environment, hence his support for education and labor reform. Second, all religions are based on the same ridiculous imagination, that make man a weak, imbecile animal; a furious bigot and fanatic; or a miserable hypocrite; (though in his later years Owen embraced Spiritualism). Third, support for the putting-out system instead of the factory system.
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